In a brilliantly suicidal move which might well drive the last nail into the coffin of her dreams of becoming the next U.S. president, Democrat contender Hillary Clinton is angling to position herself to the left of President Obama on the fatal issues of the environment and climate change. Clinton, who has hitherto trodden carefully in this contentious and divisive territory, last week went all in with the greenies by tweeting her opinion on the subject of Arctic drilling. “The Arctic is a unique treasure. Given what we know it’s not worth the risk of drilling,” she said, in a tweet signed ‘H’. This placed her immediately at odds with her own President – coming, as it did, only a day after the Obama administration had given the go ahead for Royal Dutch Shell to explore for oil beneath the Chukchi Sea off the northeastern coast of Alaska. Some analysts
Author: James Delingpole
How Obama’s Green Crony Capitalism is Reducing the US to a Banana Republic
Shadowy Big-Oil-funded forces are on a mission to blacken the name of billionaire eco-evangelist Tom Steyer. Or so his friends have told Bloomberg. “They are going to try to dirty him up,” said Court, a Steyer ally. “He is personally committed on a moral level to preventing a 4-degree temperature change that is irreversible, and he has $3 billion to pursue his passion.” I have a couple of problems with this imaginative thesis, presumably advanced with Steyer’s blessing in order to distract from unhelpful stories like this one about his latest egregious eco-fail in California. 1. How would it be possible, even with the combined resources of Chevron, Exxon, BP, Shell, Petrobras and whoever else, to cause more reputational damage to Tom Steyer than he has already achieved through his own magisterial efforts? Sure he must have been clever or cunning sometime to have made at all that money for
BBC Breaks Impartiality Rules On Climate And… Ooh Look! A Performing Dog!
The BBC has been caught red-handed breaking its own rules on impartiality by running a series of green propaganda documentaries funded by the United Nations on its BBC World News channel. But you’d never guess this from the way the BBC has reported on the story about its censure in a report by the broadcasting regulator Ofcom. Instead, like a laser, it has focused on what it considers to be the only important bit of the report, viz: Commercial rival ITV should have made it much, MUCH clearer to viewers that the amazing, performing dog which won Britain’s Got Talent earlier this year was in fact two amazing, performing dogs. That’s because there was one trick – walking the tightrope – that the main amazing, performing dog Matisse couldn’t do. So it had to be faked using a Matisse lookalike called Chase, who had trained for years and years after
RIP Stefan The Stork – One Of 30 Million Birds Killed By Wind Farms Every Year
This horrible, upsetting picture shows a white stork whose beak was chopped off by a wind turbine in Germany. It subsequently had to be “euthanised” by a vet. Though I’ve given him a name – Stefan – I think we can safely predict that his ugly and entirely unnecessary demise won’t generate nearly the same level of public outrage as did Cecil the Lion‘s. Or even Finsly the Tiger Shark’s. That’s because, as Stalin might have put it, the killing of one mammal by a white, middle-class male is a tragedy. But the massacre of millions of birds (and bats) every year by greenies who say they’re doing it because they really care about the environment is a statistic. Just how many of the world’s avian fauna are killed every year by bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes? If you believe the conservation group Save The Eagles International, then the annual global death
Why Bruce Jenner Can Now Safely Break the Law in Birmingham, England
As you’re probably aware, West Midlands Police — in a very tight field arguably the most politically correct of all Britain’s police departments — has refused to make public the details of its most-wanted criminals on the grounds that their “right to privacy” might be jeopardised. So, apart from protecting the unalienable rights of rape and murder suspects to go about their business in anonymity, schmoozing Islamists and giving their staff taxpayer-funded holidays in Spanish resorts, where exactly do West Midlands Police’s priorities lie these days? Happily, their website has an answer. Here you’ll find the heartwarming story of PC Al Smith, hailed as the very model of a modern policeman for his invaluable work in “tackling trans-gender hate crime”. Inspired by their own experiences, PC Al Smith – responsible for hunting down paedophiles as part of the force’s cutting edge Online Child Sexual Exploitation Team – has changed a
In Memoriam: Finsly The Cute, Killer Tiger Shark
A large and terrifying tiger shark has been caught off the east coast of Australia near the popular beach resort of Byron Bay. Good. Killer sharks of this magnitude have no business anywhere where swimmers and surfers congregate and the tiger is the world’s second- or third-deadliest, depending on where you rank the bull which is similarly voracious and evil. It’s time the bastards were taught a lesson they won’t forget. But you’re not supposed to say this any more, are you? I note that in the widespread media coverage it has received – and why not? everyone loves a good shark story – there’s the subtle implication that the fishermen who caught it did a bad thing. The people responsible are being very cagey about the exact circumstances of the shark’s demise. Might it even – sob! – have been caught on a wicked drum line? Sorry. Don’t care.
George Monbiot’s Obesity Solution: Punish the Thin!
Obesity is an incurable disease says the Guardian’s George Monbiot. No really, he goes on. It’s not only “more addictive than crack cocaine.” But also it’s quite like “cancer.” Gosh, how I love George Monbiot! Is he not such a darling, wonderful thing? I like his new byline photograph – still unsmiling, still austere, still wholesome and chunky-knit but now with the Wrinkles of Experience and the Deep Frown of Pained Wisdom. I like his heroic abstinence from frivolity or mirth, redolent of one of those marvelously austere Scandinavian churches and lots of distinguished German philosophers, probably. He’s like a living version of that And When Did You Last See Your Father? painting, only without the belly laughs. And also remarkably like the Hon. Sir Jonathan Porritt, it occurs. I like the fact that he went to Stowe – when Stoics, as a rule, are such jolly, thick-but-hugely-likeable beagling types. I like
George Monbiot’s Obesity Solution: Punish the Thin!
Obesity is an incurable disease says the Guardian’s George Monbiot. No really, he goes on. It’s not only “more addictive than crack cocaine.” But also it’s quite like “cancer.” Gosh, how I love George Monbiot! Is he not such a darling, wonderful thing? I like his new byline photograph – still unsmiling, still austere, still wholesome and chunky-knit but now with the Wrinkles of Experience and the Deep Frown of Pained Wisdom. I like his heroic abstinence from frivolity or mirth, redolent of one of those marvelously austere Scandinavian churches and lots of distinguished German philosophers, probably. He’s like a living version of that And When Did You Last See Your Father? painting, only without the belly laughs. And also remarkably like the Hon. Sir Jonathan Porritt, it occurs. I like the fact that he went to Stowe – when Stoics, as a rule, are such jolly, thick-but-hugely-likeable beagling types. I like
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RIP Lt-Col ‘Shufti’ Chaudhri MC: Shall We Ever See His Like Again?
In the Telegraph today there is an obituary of a splendid fellow named Lt-Col ‘Shufti’ Chaudhri who won an MC (Military Cross – Britain’s third highest gallantry award) fighting in the Italian Campaign in 1944. In the early hours of January 26, three platoons pushed forward to reconnoitre the enemy positions. At first light, Chaudhri discovered that one of the platoon leaders and an NCO were missing. He set out through driving rain and under intense mortar fire and found that the two men had been taken prisoner and that their platoon was in a critical situation, low on ammunition and facing strong opposition. No sooner had he reorganised the platoon’s defences than the enemy launched a determined attack. Chaudhri ordered his men to hold their nerve and they waited until the Germans were 40 yards away before they opened fire. Chaudhri killed or mortally wounded several of them. The
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Climate change: the Hoax that Costs Us $4 Billion a Day
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair.
The global climate change industry is worth an annual $1.5 trillion, according to Climate Change Business Journal. That’s the equivalent of $4 billion a day spent on vital stuff like carbon trading, biofuels, and wind turbines. Or — as Jo Nova notes — it’s the same amount the world spends every year on online shopping.
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